no traveling...

no john I have no travel plans this summer....I should be coming through Siloam in May at some point to visit while Kara Edge is also in town. Otherwise it's a Whitewater summer. I am also teaching a class on Tuesdays and Thursday from 1030 to 1pm. so between that and the water park I'll keep pretty busy. Although I am going to consider the American Hemerocallis Soceity Regional meeting in St. Loius in June, and then I'd also like to visit some friends up in Michigan if possilbe this summer. Depending on what sort of full time job God provides will determine my calendar and funding of any trips. For now any fun money is going to landscaping the yard and improving the house. by improving the house I mean cleaning and finding storage for things and getting rid of others. I working outdoors as much as possilbe right now while the weather is nice and before the mosquitoes make their way back north.
I've had word this week that a OCCC professor has retired and I'm hoping perhaps another fulltime position will be posted which I could throw myself into trying to get. otherwise I had the interview at the high school which went well. and I'm still checking on other city schools for ESL openings. I applied at a local Bethany school today but I don't think they even have a need for an ESL teacher there. alas.
today I did not sub and took the whole day off. got up early for swimming laps at 7am.(this was more about getting rid of the itch on my ankles and legs from something in the garden than it was about exercise, I thought the chlorine water might help). then ran some errans this morning, including shopping at a local nursery, Home Depot, and lots of container planting and mixing of soil and setting in of annuals here at home. now I'm on the porch swing with the wind blowing and about to change up for the gym. I'll come back and water the flowerbeds before settling down to grade papers while watching tv tonight. so far, a very nice spring beginning...